Seven Sisters colleges

(noun)

A group of the most famous women's colleges in the United States, including Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard Colleges.

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Examples of Seven Sisters colleges in the following topics:

  • Education and Unequal Treatment in the Classroom

    • By the mid-1800s, several women's colleges had been established, and many were coupled with men's universities as coordinate colleges.
    • In the 1970s and 1980s, some of these coordinate colleges were absorbed into the larger university to create coeducational (coed) universities with both men and women.
    • The most famous women's colleges in the United States were known as the Seven Sisters colleges and included Mount Holyoke College, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Smith College, Radcliffe College, Bryn Mawr College, and Barnard College.
    • Today, five still operate as women's-only colleges, Radcliffe no longer accepts students, and Vassar is coeducational.
    • As has long been acknowledged, females now earn higher grades than males, and since the early 1990s, more women than men have been enrolled in college.

  • Unequal Access to Education

    • All but seven of the leading countries are in the third world and ranked high because education spending makes up proportionally more of a low GDP.
    • In the United States, public schools provide free education through 12th grade, but post-secondary college education is not free.
    • Those who are unable to afford the expense of college, therefore, have unequal access.
    • All but seven of the leading countries are in the third world, ranked high because of a low GDP.

  • How has the invention and use of television affected our everyday lives?

    • Television has influenced my social life in college in a profound way.
    • We settled finally with seven televisions and one projector with television capabilities.
    • This trend could be seen across America, and it certainly followed me to college.

  • The Asch Experiment: The Power of Peer Pressure

    • Conducted by social psychologist Solomon Asch of Swarthmore College, the Asch conformity experiments were a series of studies published in the 1950s that demonstrated the power of conformity in groups.
    • Each participant was put into a group with five to seven confederates.

  • Migration

    • An example of internal migration that is motivated by both social and economic factors is the trend among young, well-educated Americans to move to large cities after college or graduate school.
    • From 1910-1970, approximately seven million African Americans migrated north to escape both poor economic opportunities and considerable political and social prejudice in the South.